Architect Claire Price explains how to harvest the energy expended from footsteps and the vibrations from trains. Energy […]
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From the series The Camp and Other Escapades, by Erik Snedsbol. Via artbbq.
I’m always on the lookout for games using CCTV cameras (btw, if you’ve heard of any, please leave […]
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Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International and Honda Research Institute have developed a new “Brain Machine Interface” for manipulating […]
I found a few interesting stories about robots today: U.S. soldiers in Iraq are giving nicknames and forming […]
Paul De Marinis’ The Messenger deals with the interrelationship between electronic communications technologies and modern lifestyle. The installation […]
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Poisonous snakes are to be moved from the site of a new stretch of a Nortern UK motorway […]
Dugnad (pronounced doog nahd) is a Norwegian word that describes a special way of doing voluntary, communial work. […]
Freaks, a 1932 film movie directed by Tod Browning (also famous for Dracula with Bela Lugosi), is available […]
Current audio/visual equipment has minimal tactile feedback while acoustic instruments however have a much richer tactile palette. It […]
There were several works at DesignMai for people who live in the streets, here are two of my […]
Felix Hardmood Beck calls his handmade Soundbombs “New-Media-Accessories” which really made my day when i saw them at […]
Thousands of workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk webservice were paid two cents to “draw a sheep facing to […]
Plans to spring-clean space junk orbiting Earth could result in the loss of irreplaceable historical artefacts, warns Alice […]
The Berlin Biennale is very enjoyable although it doesn’t try too hard to be liked by everyone: not […]
SoniColumn (image on the left) is a high column-like cylinder that can be played by touch. Grids of […]
Che Guevara photoset. Via hugo strikes back. Che videos.
The ’50s-style look of the DEFENDEX-ESPGX as well as its content bring about implied comparisons between the fearful […]
Designmai is over and i have tons of stories i hope to find the time to blog: Carhood, […]
The most playful installation at Designmai Youngsters was Enis Selmanagic‘ Vps fuck & Tür Stehn im Bild which […]
There were a couple of interactive installation at Designmai Youngsters. Ipunkt is a personal orientation system for visitors […]
Via Vintage ads. Related: Leonard Nimoy sings the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.
The Cell Atlantic CellBooth, by Jenny L Chowdhury (one of the authors of Mobile Assassins), allows the chatty […]
Simon Conder Associates‘ Black Rubber House on Dungeness beach in Kent (UK) started as a conversion of a […]
Virtual Sumo is inspired by sumo, the Japanese sport in which two contestants try to force their adversary […]
The installation Laufbahn invites you to an experience similar to the ones offered by precarious development on todays […]
I’m having a rather nice time at DesignMai in Berlin. Not as tralala and glamour as the Salone […]
Francesca and Ryan from CuteCircuit have announced the selected projects of the FutureFashionEvent which will take place in […]
Policemen inflate lifebelt before the arrival of the Chanchu typhoon in the Chinese province of Zhejiang. Via 20 […]
Off to Zürich for the Digital Art Weeks symposium and a very yummy-looking exhibition. After that i’ll be […]
Marc Böhlen‘s website has provided me with some amazing stories ever since i started blogging: from the Open […]
I’m very happy that Peder Burgaard has accepted to be one of the contributors of we-make-money-not-art. Expect some […]
Pandora’s Box, located in a 4,000 square feet Manhattan loft, describes itself as “a Disneyland of Domination” and […]
Pimp my Heart is a performance/vehicle intervention that uses a HBBB (HeartBeat Bass Booster) system to amplify the […]
Forest Grove is a beautifully shot Web narrative based on John Cheever’s short story The Swimmer. Charlie, a […]
For his diploma project (work in progress) at the University of art & Design Lausanne, Valerio Spoletini decided […]
Currently watching the videos of the kings of the Shibuya-kei movement: Pizzicato Five, an ’80s and ’90s Japanese […]
Muscles is a 35-foot-high skyscraper designed to change posture thanks to a jointed spine and pneumatic muscles, designed […]
The Cybersonica 06 Conference is the best place to be in London on Friday and Saturday if you’re […]
Shona Kitchen and Ben Hooker‘s PSP SSS (Site Specific System) concept adds a subtle degree of physical competition […]